Poultry: Difficult Phosphate Situation
Published: October 9, 2008
Summary
As has been obvious to everyone, the price of feed phosphates has undergone an almost incredible increase. A number of reasons can be cited for this, including: increased fertilizer needs to support the levels of corn production stimulated by ethanol policy, a worldwide shortage of sulfuric acid needed for some phosphate manufacture, and the extraordinary energy needs for producing of defluorinate...
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10 de octubre de 2008
It's a good one...
Impextraco
10 de octubre de 2008
Pof. Dale: I appreciate your article to take into account to reduce or minimize the high impact of the cost of feed phosphates nowadays. I would like to add a comment regard the P digestibility in the feed phosphates. Many nutritionist works with a bio disponibility of 100% of the total phosporus in some cases reducing the safety margin, and it's better to make a review of the nutritional matrix of the products in the feed formulation program, before to make some changes in the requeriments and the quantity of P that releases the use of phytase.
Thanks.
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